Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.

Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

Everyone has to do 20 push-ups for the mellophones shorts.

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.