The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

If you can't show it, you don't know it.

People want from me the impossible....

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.