Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.

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

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

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

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

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.