Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Optimization hinders evolution.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.