"The habit of institutional tone policing, even when well-intentioned, too easily slides into the active censorship of…"

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

"Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch."

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

"… and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++)."

"Barring the mythical portable-LISP-dialect-with-good-OS-bindings that has never existed, Python is about the most rea…"

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

"There is another kind of skill not normally associated with software development which I think is as important as des…"

"It is well understood in the community that project owners have a duty to pass projects to competent successors when …"

"The 'noosphere' of this essay's title is the territory of ideas, the space of all possible thoughts. What we see impl…"