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

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

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.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

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

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.