The optimum committee has no members.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance.

I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her

We need God’s great-grace in all spheres of life.

Faith without works is dead.

There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.