The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

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!

After dissolution of fears, your mind and emotions act in harmony to help you to make you a joyous soul. You don’t need to do extra efforts to get what you desire.

The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.''My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

I don't like things to be the same. I like things to evolve.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth.