I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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

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

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.

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

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

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.