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

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.

I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.

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

You think you KNOW when you learn.

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then