Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

The gospel of the kingdom is about hard work.

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Our job is not the harvest, our job is the seed.

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.