Terry A. Davis

Terry A. Davis

Terrence Andrew Davis (December 15, 1969 – August 11, 2018) was an American electrical engineer, computer programmer, and outsider artist best known for creating and designing TempleOS, a public domain operating system. In 1996, Davis began experiencing regular manic episodes, one of which led him to hospitalization. Initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he was later declared to have schizophrenia.

Quotes

• What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, "That bird has no idea what he’s looking at." And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.^{[citation needed]}

• What people are going to read is, "It's about a pathetic schizophrenic who made a crappy operating system." My perspective is, "God said I made His temple."
  • "God's Lonely Programmer", Motherboard (November 25, 2014)

• When I fight Satan, I use the sharpest knives I can find.^{[citation needed]}

• Shut up, bird!^{[citation needed]}

• The CIA niggers glow in the dark, you can see 'em if you're driving. You just run them over, that's what you do. Fucking CIA niggers!
  • Terry Davis - CIA Niggers

• I'm a white man, i wrote my own fucking compiler. I'm not a nigger like Linus, i'm a professional!
• The difference between a professional and amateur ni-^[sic]. The difference between an amateur and a professional is you write your own compiler, ok?
• You're a nigger you're [a] fucking nigger!
  • Terry A Davis gets a phonecall

• An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.
  • Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of Linus Torvalds

• I like elephants and God likes elephants.
  • most realistic elephant programmed ever

• You banned me from Twitter, God bans you from Heaven.
  • Terry Davis - "You Ban Me From Twitter, God Bans You From Heaven"