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.
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.
I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.