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?

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

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

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

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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