Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

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

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.