Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

World with various situations has various relations, don't give conclusions with your perception.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.