One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.