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

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

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.

We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

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

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