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

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

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

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