EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.