I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. . . . Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?
I believe trust is a choice.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.