I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

Get out, realize your dream, and go for it

When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.