Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.