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

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

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

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

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

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.