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

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.

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

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

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.