“Dealing with failure is easy.”

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.

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.

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

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.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.