If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

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

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

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

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole