Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately, And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky!

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

The miracle is that each of us can ultimately be invited to places we have only dreamed about and heard about.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Why do you need to gallop while you fly?" "Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.