The steady state of disks is full.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

When in doubt, use brute force.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have expected that.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Always challenge the old ways.

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.