One man's constant is another man's variable.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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

Any noun can be verbed.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it that you can make it more.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

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