In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

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

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

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

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

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole