Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular

With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.

You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.