In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

Work so hard that even hard worksays damn he is tougherthan me :)

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

I don't want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, 'That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.'

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.