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We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.