Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

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.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.