The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

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

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.

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

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

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