Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.