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.

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

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

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

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

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.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!