APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

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

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Beauty is our business.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.