If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.