The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.

In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".

The ones who take human circumstances too personally will eventually be left outside mercy

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.