C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

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

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

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

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.

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

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