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

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.

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

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

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.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

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