Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Believe the terrain, not the map

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true likeness of the real society of today.

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.