Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
In English every word can be verbed.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.