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

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.

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

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.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

The steady state of disks is full.