The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

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

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

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

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.