The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

All those who die in the Lord, will rise in the resurrection day.

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.

He screamed in agony as large black wings erupted from his back - each had four large talons on it.

What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

For the same work, dudes get paid more.