In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.