Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

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

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature