Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

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

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

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

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

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