Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

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

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

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

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

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.