To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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?

There is no such thing as a free variable.

One man's constant is another man's variable.