One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.