Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.