A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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.