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

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.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

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

We have contact with alien cultures.

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician