C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.