The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

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.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

There's a certain charm to fragile hearts❤

You need to own the treasures you find in your soul.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her