Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.

To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.

Love just for love—not for a reason.

Dance it off.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Modesty needs to come from the heart.

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

The power that dominates cannot solve world problems. The power that loves can solve world problems.