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

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

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

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

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

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.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.