[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.

I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.