A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.