One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.

You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales

I don't want to die without telling you that I love you, " Everett's voice was a faint, wavering whisper, and his lips swollen and bloodied. "I always have.

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.