Pastoral Resources

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

I'm not trying to win individual awards.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Awareness is empowering.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.