Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

When you develop yourself, you grow humanity.

Success is not random.

Death is the same for the one who dies.

Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.