Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

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!

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

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