When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.

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

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.