Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Copy and paste is a design error.

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

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

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.

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.

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

To dream your wildest dream, find your deepest desire.

Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.