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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.