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

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

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

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

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.

The steady state of disks is full.