"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potent…"

"The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."

"It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style."

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful…"

"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."

"In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to al…"

"[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language."

"A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors."

"Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don’t try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take …"

"I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby."