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Gary Kildall
7 quotes
“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.”
Gary Kildall (1942–1994) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in James Wallace and Jim Erickson (1991-05-08), "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money", Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“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.”
Gary Kildall (1942–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry.”
Gary Kildall (1942–1994) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, referring to Bill Gates; quoted in Paul Andrews (14 July 1994), "A Career Spent in Gates' Shadow—Computer Pioneer Dies at 52",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
“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 (1942–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1942–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1942–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first commercial licensing of took place in 1975 with contracts between Digital Systems and for use in their intelligent terminal, and with 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, approached me with a problem: Imsai, Incorporated, for whom Glenn consulted, had shipped a large number of disk subsystems with a promise that an operating system would follow. I was somewhat reluctant to adapt CP/M to yet another controller, and thus the notion of a separated Basic I/O System (BIOS) evolved. In principle, the hardware dependent portions of CP/M were concentrated in the BIOS, thus allowing Glenn, or anyone else, to adapt CP/M to the Imsai equipment. Imsai was subsequently licensed to distribute CP/M version 1.3 which eventually evolved into an operating system called”
Gary Kildall (1942–1994) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gary Kildall (1980) "The History of CP/M, The Evolution of an Industry: One Person's Viewpoint." Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia Vol. 5 (1) (41). p. 6-7