Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.