With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

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.

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

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).