Occupation: Computer Designer Birth: February 4, 1943
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data..
The steady state of disks is full..
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….
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution..
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different..
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science..
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't..
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals..
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own..
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you..
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it..
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..
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden..