When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

Love for each other is always there.Open your heart, feel it, it will get better.

No one is destined to meet our own destiny until it's to late

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?