That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

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

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

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

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.

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

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time