Scientist

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

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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?

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.