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.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

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

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.