Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

NATO is going to be just fine.

Eternity is a ham and two people.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.