Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.

Football is the poetry of a motion.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

Tomorrow I'll get over you if I just get through tonight.

Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.