I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.