FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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

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.

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

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

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.