I prefer true over happy now..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced..

I just want things to work properly..

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack..

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected..

Successful software always gets changed..

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

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

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong..

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster..

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

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it..

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic..

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative..