Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.