If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

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

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

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