It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

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

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

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?