When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

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

Well, I am sure, for we do not achieve this by ourselves, but by the strength of StarClan within us.

Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.

Magic is always been there, just believe, then you'll see it

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.