The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

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.

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

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

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.