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

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

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

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!

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

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.