We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

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.

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.

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

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.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.

I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.

Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.