Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

You are blessed doublee if you are in love...

I said this before: The only way to live a good life is to act on your emotions.

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a

My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

None of us is smarter than all of us.

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.