Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
