“In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”

We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

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

You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Every reader should ask himself periodically.

One can only display complex information in the mind.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.

I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.

Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

J.Lo’ in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it ‘M-smiley face-pound sign.

Get off of the car,’ J.Lo huffed. ‘I am an English superstar.’ Uh-uh. There’s no comparison. ‘

English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

English was my favorite subject.

When I think about literature, I think about it in the three languages I read easily – English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

English offers both obscurity and dark or darkness, and some translators will tell you the Latinate word is generally reserved for poetic and figurative expressions, while the Germanic word is used for colloquial and idiomatic use.

That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.