The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.