We have persistent objects, they're called files.

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

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.

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

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

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

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.