If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

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

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

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

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

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