If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

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.

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world