What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.