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).

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

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

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

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

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