Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

Feel the delights of love with the heart, not with the mind.

Life can be a beautiful journey if you accept who you are and accept the people around you for what they are.

Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.

I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like, "Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight

If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.