Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.