If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

As long as we’re alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we’ll have something to say.

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

You have to be a master to teach.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.