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.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Any noun can be verbed.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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