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

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

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

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.

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