“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else.

One man’s constant is another man’s variable.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

In English every word can be verbed.

Dealing with failure is easy.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

She can relate to darkness it absorbs everything.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

I don’t have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.