My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

Judgment is a negative frequency.

If only one word of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.

My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.