I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

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!

You cannot free someonewho is caged intheir own self.

Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.

A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.