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

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

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

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

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

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

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.