Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

Copy and paste is a design error.

One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself." "Why?" I said. "If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.

I think brands should go back to being more specialised and focused on particular market segments. Sometimes the business you don’t do is more important than that which you actually do.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

A good name is better than precious ointment.