Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

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

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

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

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