My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.