Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

There is no such thing as a free variable.

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

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

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

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

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