Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

...every "Good Bye" said by a true friend, shall always be followed by "Hello" and every happy end shall always be a beginning of something New and Wonderful!

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

this IS the time when man must be Free.

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.