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

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.

I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

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

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

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

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