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

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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

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