With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

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

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)