As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?