There is no such thing as a free variable.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.