Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money

We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love.

...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.