Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about the go to statement. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

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

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

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