A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. |
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. |
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. |
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. |
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. |
Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. |
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. |
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. |
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. |
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. |
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. |
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin. |
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". |
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. |
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? |