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

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.

What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of “something going on”.

It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.