A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

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?

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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

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

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