Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.