Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

Grant is the beginning of the Patent Game, not its end.

Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.