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

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!

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.

Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Egg nog. Because nothing satisfies like a cold glass of eggs.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend