For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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

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

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.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

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.