Gary Kildall quotes

Gary Kildall quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

Source : "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money". "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" Newspaper, May 8, 1991.

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“The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.”
-- Gary Kildall

Source : "Programmers at Work". Book by Gary Kildall, 1986.

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“R-E-L-A-X. I'm still getting paid millions of dollars.”
“If I had a dollar for every time I couldnâ€™t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.”
“If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How should they answer?”
“Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
“Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.”
“I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?”
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.”
“John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.”
“Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."”

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