Bill Joy Thinking Quotations

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.