There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.