Paul Maritz quotes

Paul Maritz quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing”
-- Paul Maritz

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“We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.”
-- Paul Maritz

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“I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.”
“This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.”
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”
“The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.”

Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
“Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.”
“The universe is computing its own destiny.”
“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing”
“Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.”

Source : Comment in comp.os.plan9, groups.google.com. 2004.

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