If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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.

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

He who doesn’t want to face his or her challenges shall always face challenges!

This is why we can't have nice things...

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.