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

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

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

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

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.

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

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.

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

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.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

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

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

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

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

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

'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like Ruta Sepetys who bravely tells the hard story of what happens to the innocent when world leaders and their minions choose hate and oppression. Beautiful and unforgettable.

My hair walks into a room before I do.

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

As citizens we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved its the citizen who changes things.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.

I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.