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.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.

I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice.

Traveling is my form of self-education.