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

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

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.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

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

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.