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

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

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

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

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

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

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.