A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

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

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.