It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

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.

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

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

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.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.