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

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

When in doubt, use brute force.

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

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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

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