Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

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.

I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

If you dont educate your kids... I will.

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.

If you want to change your life, change the questions you ask yourself each day!

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them