Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

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

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

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

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.

We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

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