Quotes from Brian W. Kernighan

Don't comment bad code—rewrite it.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book.

Nevertheless, C retains the basic philosophy that programmers know what they are doing; it only requires that they state their intentions explicitly.

The most relevant precursor to today's computers is the Jacquard loom,

First is the sheer joy of making things. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

The word bit is a contraction of binary digit that was coined by the statistician John Tukey in the mid 1940s.

To quote one company that makes beacon systems, "beacons are ushering in the indoor mobile marketing revolution.

The Elements of Programming Style (with P. J. Plauger)