“I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.”

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.

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

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

I don’t know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I’d get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

It’s not who wins the fight that’s important, it’s being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing – probably playing ice hockey.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. … That’s a pretty scary thought.

People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn’t even know it existed.