“Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.”

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

I know when somebody is trying to get something out of me for clicks. And sometimes I feel like giving it to them.

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, “I could sing that song. I’ve got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that’s clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.