A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
In English every word can be verbed.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.