I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
We have persistent objects, they're called files.