A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.