One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Beauty Lies Within The unknown

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

It never occurred to me to say no.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.