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

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.