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.

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

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

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.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.