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

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

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

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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

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