The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

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.

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

Dreams, unlike eggs, don’t hatch from sitting on them.

That's when I learned the hardest truth about vengeance: it had no logical end, served no real purpose, except perhaps to delay grief.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

Believe that God is in control. There is no need to be stressed out or worried

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.