If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?

Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.