One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.