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

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.

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

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

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

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