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?

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

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

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

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Any noun can be verbed.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.