I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

Routine kills creative thought.

The kid is scary.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because thats my comfort level.