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

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.