The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

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

The crazier the theory, the more likely it is to be correct.

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

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