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

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

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.

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

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

While we wait for life, life passes

They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.