Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

I love the forest.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

I set a high standard for myself.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

I saw The Rev the other night and he was on like four different things. He was like, Dude, Ive been gone for three days!