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

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.

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.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

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

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.