And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

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

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time