The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

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 pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

I do really well under pressure.

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

The root of war is fear.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.