Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Copy and paste is a design error.

One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

When your friend becomes a king, treat him first as a king, then let him choose you as a friend. Acting otherwise is suicidal. Familiarity is evil.

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.