If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

People of India who work day and night, they are my inspiration. I look at them and I work even harder.

The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.