The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

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.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

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

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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