Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

Blood diamonds, she thought. That’s exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death.

That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

I want to do more films.

A writer is always working.