One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.