[luriel]

Enneff works with ken in the Go team at Google.

As for his particular insight, if you are familiar with his work, that should be enough.

For those not familiar with his work, this interview might be a good starting point:

http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/interviews/unix-and-bey...

[gruseom]

This is golden:

"The aggressive use of a small number of abstractions is, I think, the direct result of a very small number of people who interact closely during the implementation."

[conradfr]

It's from 1997 I guess ? Seems like he was wrong about Linux and maybe Microsoft :)