• Choose

    Fast. Good. Cheap. Choose any two.

  • Computers

    Computers are useless. They give you only answers.

  • Ipse Dixit

    Software is like sex, it's better when it's free

  • Software

    I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

  • KISS

    Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  • People

    Everything really interesting that happens in software projects eventually comes down to people

  • Intelligence

    Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

  • Hardware, /nm./:

    The part of the computer that you can kick.

  • Free software

    Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. You should think of 'free' as in free speech, not as in free beer.

  • Hackers

    Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.