Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
In C++, reinvention is its own reward.
Most opportunities are disguised as problems.
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!