Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

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

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

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.