Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.