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

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

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

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

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.)