An interview with Bill Joy appears in the December issue of Wired. A lot of people are going to complain about some of the things he says. I have my disagreements with Joy, but I also find him saying a lot of things that make a lot of sense. In an effort to strike a positive tone, I wanted to highlight a few of them here.

Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux.

I try to work on things that won't happen unless I do them. My goal is to do great things. If I do something great, maybe it'll beat Microsoft. But that's not my goal.

Great, world-changing things always start small. The ideal project is one where people don't have meetings, they have lunch.

We still don't get it about epidemics. Even SARS was just a TV story about a bunch of people wearing masks.

Clean water would do more to alleviate disease than high tech medicine.

'Hope Is a Lousy Defense' | Bill Joy in Wired