SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong...For What It’s Worth

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.