Gary Kildall

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.

I think programming is very much a religious experience for a lot of people.

I start with drawing the data structures, and I spend a lot of time thinking about them. I also think about what the program has to go through before I start writing code.

If you learn how to solve problems, you can go through life and do pretty well.

I don’t comment on the code itself because I feel that properly written code is very much self-documented.

When a program is clean and neat, nicely structured, and consistent, it can be beautiful.