Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

Several People Have Told Me That My Inability To Suffer Fools Gladly Is One Of My Main Weaknesses.

Computer Science Has As Much To Do With Computers As Astronomy Has To Do With Telescopes.

... As A Slow-witted Human Being I Have A Very Small Head And I Had Better Learn To Live With It And To Respect My Limitations And Give Them Full Credit, Rather Than To Try To Ignore Them, For The Latter Vain Effort Will Be Punished By Failure.

In This Respect A Program Is Like A Poem: You Cannot Write A Poem Without Writing It. Yet People Talk About Programming As If It Were A Production Process And Measure "programmer Productivity" In Terms Of "number Of Lines Of Code Produced". In So Doing They Book That Number On The Wrong Side Of The Ledger: We Should Always Refer To "the Number Of Lines Of Code Spent".

The Question Of Whether Computers Can Think Is Like The Question Of Whether Submarines Can Swim.