The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as gre…

Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll …

We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal…

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.