Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.