Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

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.

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

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.