Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.