The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

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.

Love is the intoxication of God.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Have you ever seen innovation where someone didn’t take a risk?

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.