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

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

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

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

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

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

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.