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

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

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.

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.

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, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?

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

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.