Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.