The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of se….

Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school..

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy..

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy..

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works..

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others..

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something ….

Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wr….

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't ….

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as thi….

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more..

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with t….

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that..

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work fo….

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string..

Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted t….

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer..

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer..

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely..