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

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

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

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

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

When in doubt, use brute force.