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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 Programmers at Work (1986)

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

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.

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.

Programmers at Work (1986)

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