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Apple wasn't built by a saint. It was built by an iron-fisted visionary.

The real prize is found not in a degree, a certificate, a brief taste of applause on a commemoration day, but in the deeper strength of soul, the wider range of wisdom, which the long discipline of unflagging effort has taught him.

There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them?

Most entrepreneurs pursue the question, "How can I succeed?" From day one, Packard and Hewlett pursued a different question: "What can we contribute?"

If you look at the disassembly of functions inside Windows DLLs, you'll find that they begin with the seemingly pointless instruction MOV EDI, EDI. This instruction copies a register to itself and updates no flags; it is completely meaningless. So why is it there? It's a hot-patch point.

The difference between using "self.foo = bar" and "foo = bar" in Objective-C.

Excerpts from speeches given by Zhu Rongji, former Premier of China. Shows a man who had a very firm grasp on breadth and depth of policy details, which allowed him to address problems in a straightforward and forceful way.

Of all the events that engage people at work, the single most important — by far — is simply making progress in meaningful work.

If you screw up at your job you can always get another one, but if you screw up your family, especially your relationship with your children, it will stay with you and stay screwed up forever.

Great overview of LDAP, making clear and explicit what you'd be unsure of when grappling with the monstrosity of all that's involved. And yes, all the major servers are pretty much descended from the same original codebase.