“The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.”

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens’ homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation’s immigration system.

People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It’s to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

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

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

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

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.

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

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.