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

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

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!

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.

Thinking can be done best when you’re in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration.

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well.

I don't want to be in the press.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.