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

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

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