I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

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

We have persistent objects, they're called files.