Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: November 8, 1954
A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control..
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions..
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them..
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely….
Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are..
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 t….
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming ….
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it..
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen..
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays..
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of….
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored..
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community..
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that….
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display..
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear..
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it..
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person..
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems..
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that..
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up..