Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.