Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.

A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.