The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

The more honor, the more danger.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness