Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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 don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

There is nothing more dangerous on planet Earth than a black wife.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.