Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

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.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.