If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.