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

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

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

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.