The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

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.

As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality, is needed in our educational systems.

In the midst of the personified impersonal world, smiles dramatically connect humans.

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

It is not given to each of usTo be desired.

All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.