For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

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

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

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

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature