You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

How many hearts must you break in order to fix your own?

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

All true love is grounded on esteem.

I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.