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

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.

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

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.

Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation.""These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

The wheels of justice - they're square wheels.

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.