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.
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.