Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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

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

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

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

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

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.