I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.
Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that kind of thing. I don't care if it's a pope or a bin Laden. As long as investigators must go to a judge - an independent judge, a real judge, not a secret judge - and make a showing that there's probable cause to issue a warrant, then they can do that. And that's how it should be done.
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.