There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate.

I took on so many things and not everything was the right fit. If you do that, it can kill your brand. A partnership has to be real and authentic.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.