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.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

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.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management