Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

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

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.