In English every word can be verbed.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

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

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.