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.

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

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.

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

I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?