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

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.

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!

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.