Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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.

Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor is never to question him when he says that word. You just run. It's almost like breathing.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.