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.
When in doubt, use brute force.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.