LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
