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

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

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.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

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.

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

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.