If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Believe the terrain, not the map

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!

Three most important questions for a happy life:How can I help? How can I love? How can I belong?

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon.

If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.