I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If the….

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped bu….

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN..

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night..

You learn something every day, unless you're careful..

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand..