It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

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

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

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.)

Let your feet Take you places, let them remind you of the beauty your eyes can't see.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.