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

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.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

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

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.

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

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.