You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbag…

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the p…

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one…

I don't really know what 'intellectual' means, but if it means you've got a desire to learn, you've got a desire to look for things that haven't been presented…

Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human bei…