The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?