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

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.

When in doubt, use brute force.

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.

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 began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Spiritual energy is the one kind that never runs out.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so.