The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

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.

What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.

It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.

I love you, Kaylee. More than I've ever loved anyone. More than I will ever love anyone. If I could freeze this moment in time and never have to let you go, I would do it without a second thought.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.