“Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.”

That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Any noun can be verbed.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

You think you KNOW when you learn.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God.