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

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.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

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