Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

You manage things and lead people.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.