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

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time