"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."
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"I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals."
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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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"I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different."
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"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."
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"Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it."
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"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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"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."
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"I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!"
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"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems."
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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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"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."
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