“You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.”

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else.

One man’s constant is another man’s variable.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

In English every word can be verbed.

Dealing with failure is easy.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.

God doesn’t have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Jesus didn’t accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

If you don’t suffer, you don’t get anything. Nothing easy in life.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

I don’t remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.