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

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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

Any noun can be verbed.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.