You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

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

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

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

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

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

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