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

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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

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

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.