A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

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.

Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

Life is what you make out of it consciously.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I keep a lot to myself, and I cherish the things that are for me and the people closest to me.