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 also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

The steady state of disks is full.

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

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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