The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.