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

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

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

The steady state of disks is full.

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

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

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