programming

Good code is not just a “beautiful” code. It's code you can modify fast. That speed is crucial for the business and the key to building a successful product.

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

Deleted code is debugged code.

The best way to learn is rewriting.

Weak security that’s easy to use will help more people than strong security that’s hard to use.

Before it was called slack we just called it IRC with a webinterface. Re-inventing and centralising the wheel, a recipe for great success.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

I think it’s highly unlikely that we ever would have gone as strongly as we did without the GNU influence,” says Bostic, looking back. “It was clearly something where they were pushing hard and we liked the idea.

Keith Bostic (of the Berkeley CSRG), openly credits Stallman with the free software push that BSD then followed with, recounting numerous discussions on copyright with Stallman when he visited Berkeley

A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can’t program state machines.

I've even heard of people screen-recording them programming, and then watching later, to have an external view of how they spend their time, because in the moment you can't evaluate very well. Yet people don't regularly do this. There is no market where I can easily pay people to watch me talk, program, choose clothes, etc, and give me feedback.