Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

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

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?