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

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Optimization hinders evolution.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.