I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.