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

In English every word can be verbed.

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.

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.

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

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

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.