When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

If you're not on the right path, get off it.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.