Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: November 8, 1954
Well, limbo is not a good place to be..
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar..
I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go….
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain..
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand..
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes..
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself..
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays..
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that..
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..
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored..
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems..
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up..
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of….
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear..
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display..
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….