Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

As Oscar tells to Chalky, eventually we all run out of road...

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.