Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Beauty is our business.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

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.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.