Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

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

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

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

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.