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.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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

Optimization hinders evolution.

Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.