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

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.