A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

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

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

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.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry