For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

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.

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

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

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