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.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

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

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

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

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.