Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.