Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
There is no such thing as a free variable.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.