In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

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

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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

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

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