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

One man's constant is another man's variable.

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

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

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

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?

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.