It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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.

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.

I am Midnight(cats stare dumbfounded)

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

I never did mind about the little things.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.