Gary Kildall Zitate

Gary Arlen Kildall war ein US-amerikanischer Informatiker. Er ist bekannt als Entwickler des Betriebssystems CP/M und Gründer der Firma Digital Research. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Mai 1942 – 11. Juli 1994
Gary Kildall: 7   Zitate 0   Gefällt mir

Gary Kildall: Zitate auf Englisch

“It's fun to sit at a terminal and let the code flow. It sounds strange, but it just comes out my brain; once I'm started, I don't have to think about it.”

Gary Kildall buch Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers who Shaped the Computer Industry

Programmers at Work (1986)

“I expected too much of educators. I expected them to understand, in a sense, the sugar-coated concepts of LISP used in AI that were embodied in the Logo language. It was then that I learned that computers were built to make money, not minds.”

Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, on the prevalence of BASIC in programming education; quoted in a eulogy http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/eulogy.htm delivered by Tom Rolander

“The first commercial licensing of where CP/M was used to monitor programs in the Octopus network. Little attention was paid to CP/M for about a year. In my spare time, I worked to improve overall facilities… By this time, CP/M had been adapted for four different controllers….
In 1976”

Gary Kildall (1980) " The History of CP/M, The Evolution of an Industry: One Person's Viewpoint http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/CPM_history_kildall.txt." Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia Vol. 5 (1) (41). p. 6-7

“He is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry.”

Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, referring to Bill Gates; quoted in Paul Andrews (14 July 1994), "A Career Spent in Gates' Shadow—Computer Pioneer Dies at 52", Seattle Times

“You need to study other people's work. Their approaches to problem solving and the tools they use give you a fresh way to look at your own work.”

Gary Kildall buch Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers who Shaped the Computer Industry

Programmers at Work (1986)

“Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.”

Quoted in James Wallace and Jim Erickson (1991-05-08), "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money", Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Ähnliche Autoren

Helen Rowland Foto
Helen Rowland 1
US-amerikanische Journalistin
Kurt Vonnegut Foto
Kurt Vonnegut 4
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Isidor Isaac Rabi Foto
Isidor Isaac Rabi 1
US-amerikanischer Physiker
Allen Ginsberg Foto
Allen Ginsberg 10
US-amerikanischer Dichter
Truman Capote Foto
Truman Capote 74
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Henry Miller Foto
Henry Miller 11
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Maler
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto
Eleanor Roosevelt 83
US-amerikanische Menschenrechtsaktivistin
Norman Vincent Peale Foto
Norman Vincent Peale 7
US-amerikanischer Pfarrer und Autor
Malcolm X Foto
Malcolm X 78
US-amerikanischer Führer der Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Jerome David Salinger Foto
Jerome David Salinger 6
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller