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.

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.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

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

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

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

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.