 I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. |
| In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. |
| I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. |
| In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. |
| No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. |
| A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect. |
| 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. |
| One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. |
| One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. |
| We have persistant objects, they're called files. |
| 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 next week. |
| The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. |
| It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. |
| I am a programmer. |
| You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. |
| So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again. |
| I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals. |
| Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. |
| The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. |
| When in doubt, use brute force. |
