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

Copy and paste is a design error.

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

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.

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

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.

The light is flame of life.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

I hate you! (Artemis) Don’t keep saying that, Artie. It’s cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.