It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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