I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

By turns the nine delight to sing

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.