Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

My father was an all-American football player.

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

We're all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.