If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.

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

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.

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

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

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

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission