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.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

When in doubt, use brute force.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.