A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

Slow but steady wins the race.

But it is clear to me that our survival—both yours and mine—will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.” “So we’re screwed?

Make a difference no matter what role you play

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.