Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

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.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

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

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

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.