There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

To reject any vast group of one's cultural ancestors in the cause of some current theory is not just arr

I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.