Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.