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. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

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

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

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