I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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!

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.