It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

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

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.

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

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.