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.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.