Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.