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

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

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.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.