In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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?

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

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.