It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas..

When in doubt, use brute force..

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself..

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

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

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

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

I am a very bottom-up thinker..

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

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular..

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code..

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

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!.

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

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect..

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

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

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

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!.

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 nex….

We have persistent objects, they're called files..