The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

Whenever possible, steal code.

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

I am an interpreter of interpretations

We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.