Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.
There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.
Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.