Bill Joy on C

"Stuff written in antique programming languages like C is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network."

"You can't simply write a new, multimillion-line program in C and expect it to be reliable unless you're willing to work on it for 20 years."

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The title of the novel (and most of its adaptations) is Nineteen Eighty-Four, not 1984.