Some problems are better evaded than solved.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street.

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.