For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.