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The Designer Of A New Kind Of System Must Participate Fully In The Implementation.

My General Working Style Is To Write Everything First With Pencil And Paper, Sitting Beside A Big Wastebasket. Then I Use Emacs To Enter The Text Into My Machine.

Tex Has Found At Least One Bug In Every Pascal Compiler It's Been Run On, I Think, And At Least Two In Every C Compiler

I Decry The Current Tendency To Seek Patents On Algorithms. There Are Better Ways To Earn A Living Than To Prevent Other People From Making Use Of One's Contributions To Computer Science.

People Who Are More Than Casually Interested In Computers Should Have At Least Some Idea Of What The Underlying Hardware Is Like. Otherwise The Programs They Write Will Be Pretty Weird.