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

Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Any noun can be verbed.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.