Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.

Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to

Good government is good politics.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.