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

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!