When in doubt, use brute force.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.

She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I'm not going to be lectured to.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.