Bill Joy Quotes

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

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Animals

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Vision
  • Solution

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Scared

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Research

• Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Words
  • Risk

• I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Audience
  • Short

• In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

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

  

  Bill Joy
  • People
  • Tired
  • Complaining