Bill Joy People Quotations

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.