Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

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

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

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

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

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.