Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

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