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

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

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

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

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.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.