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

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

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.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

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

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.