At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work, and if you aren't one of them, you won't just have fewer great hackers, you'll have zero.

I've seen occasional articles about how to manage programmers. Really there should be two articles: one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and …

Your teachers are always telling you [high school students] to behave like adults. I wonder if they'd like it if you did. You may be loud and disorganized, but…

When those far removed from the creation of wealth -- undergraduates, reporters, politicians -- hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total weal…

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people amo…