Frasi di Gary Kildall

Gary Arlen Kildall è stato un informatico statunitense, famoso per aver creato il sistema operativo CP/M e per aver fondato la Digital Research, Inc.

Kildall fu una delle prime persone a considerare i microprocessori dei computer a tutti gli effetti e non solamente dei controllori di apparati, fondando un'azienda su questo concetto. Presentò anche il programma televisivo The Computer Chronicles sulla rete pubblica PBS. Nonostante la sua carriera nell'informatica si estenda per oltre due decenni, è principalmente ricordato per il fallito accordo con IBM per commercializzare il CP/M insieme al PC IBM. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Maggio 1942 – 11. Luglio 1994
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Gary Kildall: Frasi in inglese

“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 libro 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Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, on the prevalence of BASIC in programming education; quoted in a eulogy http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/eulogy.htm delivered by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Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, referring to Bill Gates; quoted in Paul Andrews (14 July 1994), "A Career Spent in Gates' Shadow—Computer Pioneer Dies at 52",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 libro 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

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