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

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

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

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.