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

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

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

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

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

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

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