A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.

Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

When you've got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.

Prayer is an effort of will.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.