I Define Unix As 30 Definitions Of

People Who Are More Than Casually Interested In Computers Should Have At Least Some Idea Of What The Underlying Hardware Is Like. Otherwise The Programs They Write Will Be Pretty Weird.

An Algorithm Must Be Seen To Be Believed.

... The Designer Of A New System Must Not Only Be The Implementor And The First Large-scale User; The Designer Should Also Write The First User Manual. ... If I Had Not Participated Fully In All These Activities, Literally Hundreds Of Improvements Would Never Have Been Made, Because I Would Never Have Thought Of Them Or Perceived Why They Were Important.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.

The Psychological Profiling [of A Programmer] Is Mostly The Ability To Shift Levels Of Abstraction, From Low Level To High Level. To See Something In The Small And To See Something In The Large.