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?

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

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

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

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.