In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.