You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.
I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
I have a heart with room for every joy.
The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.