Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.