Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

I just want to improve game to game and try to get better.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.