Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

My life is a glorious adventure.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

Liberty comes only after security.