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

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.

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.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

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

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world