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Quote by Bill Joy

“We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.”

Quote by Bill Joy

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Bill Joy is a renowned computer scientist, born on November 8, 1954. He has had a significant impact in the field of computer science, particularly in operating systems and programming languages. Joy was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and a co-creator of the Java programming language. more

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