Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

The only sweeter than union is reunion.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.