Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Most of the people could be good at something specific, but they probably never discover what it is.

Peace of mind is the power in the moment.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle.

Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?