Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.