I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

love means to see the one you love happy

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.