I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers. . . coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you. ' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.
My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.