I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.