Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.