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.

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

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

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.