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

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.

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

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.

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.

A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing, and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner.

A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.

I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.