The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.