Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

Living in fear is not living at all.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Here we are now, entertain us.

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.