Gary Kildall 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

  Dollars, Answers, Bills

  "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money". "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" Newspaper, May 8, 1991.

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• 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

  Thinking, Profound, Style

  "Programmers at Work". Book by Gary Kildall, 1986.

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