Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.