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

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

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

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

When in doubt, use brute force.

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