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

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

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.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Optimization hinders evolution.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

In English every word can be verbed.