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

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

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

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