Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
There is no such thing as a free variable.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.