One man's constant is another man's variable.

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.

I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.

It is not yours to finish the task but neither are you free to take no part in it.

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Tis nothing when you are used to it.

I'd like to believe that following one's bliss is a human right.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.