The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.