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

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

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

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Copy and paste is a design error.

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

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