"The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast."

"On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the r…"

"Playing with pointers is like playing with fire. Fire is perhaps the most important tool known to man. Carefully used…"

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air,…"

"And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it …"

"Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human indu…"

"Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the un…"

"The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a com…"

"Computers are man's attempt at designing a cat: it does whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and rarely ever at the …"

"Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25."