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

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

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

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

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.

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?