Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

All actors have to change their name.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately.That's just a warning. To everyone.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.