Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

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.

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.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

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