A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn.

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

She cleans a toilet inside and out under a minute. More like terrifying

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

The wine I produce is not for keeping. Its the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.