A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.