The steady state of disks is full.

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

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.