Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Today, no matter where I'm going and no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to see that which I am wanting to see.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Arise, soldiers of Christ, throw away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.