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If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.
Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.
If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala
I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.
President Obama Tastes the Bitter Fruit of Appeasement...of Israel, not Iran
Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'