No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to takecare of ourselves.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

Welcome to the church of me.

Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.