People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Home is where the backpack is

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

One cannot rest except after steady practice.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

The face is the soul of the body.