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

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

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.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.