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.

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

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.

The secret to abundance in life is to begin with an abundant mindset and a caring heart.

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.

We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.

For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.

The limitations are limitless.

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.