Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.