I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

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

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate

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

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.