I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity
It has to be done in an appropriate way, so that nobody thinks it is a backdoor approach to have intergovernmental regulation for something that ought not to be regulated.
More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will produce as output an exact copy of its source.
Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
Those countries that use firewalls or otherwise restrict the ability of their citizens to obtain access to information are hurting themselves, especially when it comes to their ability to compete economically.
We look at the Internet's success and want to make sure we keep the recipe for it. If you modify it, the risk is that you come out with something far worse.
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
