As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

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

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.

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

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.