I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.