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

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.

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.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Information wants to be free.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Sometimes it's overwhelming but I love my fans and it's always great to see them.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.