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

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.