When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

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

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

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.