Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

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

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

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.

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

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.