If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.