I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

It should be noted that my mother has a long history of being disturbingly unperturbed by what normal people deem perturbing. Certain things simply don't strike her as worthy of a sit-down.

If being beautiful guarantees "Forever with You" I'll do whatever it takes.

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

Who can be patient in extremes?