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

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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