You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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.

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

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.

You totally love him. He's your widdle snookums.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.