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

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

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.

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

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.