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.

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.

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

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

I was falling for his lies until he started crying. (sighs) excuse me but I'm gonna need another bucket.

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.