I've Done A Reasonable Amount Of Travelling,

It Seems Certain That Much Of The Success Of Unix Follows From The Readability, Modifiability, And Portability Of Its Software.

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.

It's True That Compared With The Scene When Unix Started, Today The Ecological Niches Are Fairly Full, And Fresh New Os Ideas Are Harder To Come By, Or At Least To Propagate.

The Only Way To Learn A New Programming Language Is By Writing Programs In It.

I Listen To Mostly-classical Music, But Mostly By Radio - I'm Not An Audiophile.