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?

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

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

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.