I am a programmer.

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.

I don’t think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven’t really had experience with.

For most of that time, I’ve also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it’s coupled with file systems.

I view Linux as something that’s not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

There’s a lot of power in executing data – generating data and executing data.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can’t.