The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

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

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

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.

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.