I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

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.

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