Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.

Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

All of heaven we have below.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.