Browse Quotes

The Internet is like a giant library, but all the books are on the floor.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

If all insects were to vanish, the environment as we know it would collapse. If humanity were to vanish, the environment would flourish.

I have discovered living creatures in water, rain, and snow, in the mouth and intestines of man, and in many other places.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses driven by values, hopes, and fears.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If you know every gene in an organism, you don't know that organism.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.