When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

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.

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain.

You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?

They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.

The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.