On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

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

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

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

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

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