Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

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.

LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

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