Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.