Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

Whenever possible, steal code.

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.