From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.