Optimization hinders evolution.

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.

Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.

Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.