It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

The steady state of disks is full.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.