Bill Joy Quotes

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.