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

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

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?

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

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

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.