Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn’t a messy, dirty rip like I’d expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job