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

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

The steady state of disks is full.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

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

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.