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.

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.

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

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 is the way to go.

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

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.