Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.