To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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.