The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

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.

The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our lives help us to understand the norms of common knowledge and take pride of our citizenship.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.