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

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

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

When in doubt, use brute force.

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