I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

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

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.