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….

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..

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

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent..

If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. ….

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain..

Well, limbo is not a good place to be..

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand..

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology..

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

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated..

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

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

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too..

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

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard..

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable..

The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary st….

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

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V..