Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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

There is no such thing as a free variable.