I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.