In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

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.

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress

Stress is a dragon.Believe in it and you’re toast.Slay your stress.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.