To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Anything I can do, you can do better. It is a matter of belief backed by desire.

And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

You are alone my evil and my good With you I have everything - without you nothing

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.