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

What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

I think Unix is a great system – especially for running data centers – because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.

The reason I use ed is that I don’t want to lose what’s on the screen.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.