Brian Behlendorf on “The World Needs Less Software”: http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$16542#16601
Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html
The Art of UNIX Programming: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/index.html