Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.