Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

Be fearless in the chase of your dream.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

I'm crap and a fatty.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?