When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

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.

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.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love.

Understanding is the bridge between two minds

Happiness can't be made

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz. And he goes around saying he's a Christian.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.