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

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

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

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

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

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!

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.