"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people."

"There is a programming language called APL (an acronym for A Programming Language, how clever) that has more than a l…"

"APL is a write only language."