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

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.

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

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!

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.