I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

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

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

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 am a very bottom-up thinker.