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

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.