It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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.

If you have Lost something, there's always something Coming, just live by to see it.

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

I would pay to watch Ginobili play.

You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition