90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Believe the terrain, not the map

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

..if the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.