14:20 <MetaEd> you're in a restaurant. the server takes your order. the server hands 
               your order through a window to the cook in the kitchen. nobody but the 
               cook is allowed in the kitchen. the cook handles the mixers, the pots 
               and pans, the burners, the refrigerator. the cook is the kernel.
14:20 <MetaEd> the mixers, the pots and pans, the burners, and the refrigerator are 
               your CPU, monitor, disk drives, etc.
14:22 <MetaEd> you, the user, generally don't even talk directly to the cook. you talk 
               to your server. Your server is your software applications, your command 
               prompt, your utilities.
14:23 <MetaEd> you could, of course, try writing up your own order and handing it 
               through the window to the cook. Now you're an assembly programmer.
14:24 <MetaEd> Or you could get a job in the kitchen. Now you're a driver developer.