The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Don't stop with your first draft.

Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Be Vast, Solitary, Down to Earth and Firm

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.