Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

Free lunches don't come cheap.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

You probably don't have much of a choice.

Nothing can contaminate the purity of my love—not even the dirt of hateful thoughts.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel