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 man's constant is another man's variable.

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

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

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