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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Optimization hinders evolution.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

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.