In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

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

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

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

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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