Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

Charge for something and make more than you spend.

Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.

Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.