Getting lost in the ‘big picture’ often prevents us from cherishing the 'small moments' that make it all worthwhile...

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.

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

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.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable.

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.