It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now says, despite these marathon all-night sessions going on in the House, Republicans need to do better, they need to start over, they need to come up with something that the Senate says will actually reduce prices for insurance and keep it affordable.
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.
How one encounters reality is a choice.
Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.