You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.