Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

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

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

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

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

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

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.