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

A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

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

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

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.

It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.

My love language is chocolate.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.