C Is Quirky, Flawed, And An Enormous

The Number Of Unix Installations Has Grown To 10, With More Expected.

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.

Twenty Percent Of All Input Forms Filled Out By People Contain Bad Data.

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.

Obviously, The Person Who Had Most Influence On My Career Was Ken Thompson.