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.

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

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

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

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

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