Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Make your problems becomeopportunities instead ofobstacles.

Life Is All About Range

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.