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

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

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

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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