Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

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

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.