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.

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

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

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

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.