I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

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.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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

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