The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Love can literally transform a human being. It can make us do either heroic or evil deeds. It is the best inspiration ever.

Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.

Answer suffering with kindness.

Never wish unto others what you wouldn't wish for yourself.

All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.

For every survivor there is also a rapist.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

People aren't universally heroic.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.