I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

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.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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?

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.