I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

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!

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

It's alright to die cause death is the only thing you haven't tried

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.