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.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

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