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

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

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

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

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

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

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