Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
You learn something every day, unless you're careful.
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it. '"
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.
Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy.
Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you. . . And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want. . . He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I'm not lying. My brother wiped at his eyes.
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live in mediocrity? Because that's all that the entitlements are going to do for you. Keep you living in the lowest socio-economic scale.