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.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.

You can be happy where you are.

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

Men practice war; beasts do not.

As long as you can laugh at you, it won't bother you when others laugh at you.