During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

I was like, 'Huh? You want my jersey?'

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.