Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.

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

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

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

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