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

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.

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

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

Free markets select for winning solutions.