That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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.
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.