To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

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

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

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

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

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