Bill Joy on Java and Jini

Sun co-founder and Java champion, Bill Joy, gave this interview to Wired shortly after leaving Sun:

“I’ve always said that all successful systems were small systems initially. Great, world-changing things – Java, for instance – always start small. The ideal project is one where people don’t have meetings, they have lunch. The size of the team should be the size of the lunch table.”

“Jini networking technology was a partial attempt. Rather than writing distributed applications, you write a program – the whole system is an application program. But Jini was a solution to a problem that people didn’t know they had.”