Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.

You might be a redneck if the first words out of your mouth every time you see friends are Howdy!, Hey! or How Y'all Doin'?

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

I looked good when I sang the end.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.