Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

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

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.

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.

Free markets select for winning solutions.