Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

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

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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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

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

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.