If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.