Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.