There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

I don't have anything good to say. World Golf Championships, I mean that suggests they're going to be played everywhere, and they tend to not be played in very many places.

Why won't you take me, Remington?" He groans and pulls me closer. "Because I want you too much".

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.