One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

The connection between you and any business is knowledge.

If people begin to be more grateful, they will see the wonders of life.

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.