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

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

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.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

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

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.