Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

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