... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.