An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!