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

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

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.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

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.

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