Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Believe the terrain, not the map

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

Life turns out to be best for those who tried their best.

If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]