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

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.

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.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think it's cool. I have a lot of fun.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

I think the chances are better of me putting Super Unleaded into a rented car.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.