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.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

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

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