"There is an appreciated substance to the phrase "ALGOL-like" which is often used in arguments about programming, lang…"

"The vision we have of conversational programming takes in much more than rapid turn around time and convenient debugg…"

"Programmers should never be satisfied with languages which permit them to program everything, but to program nothing …"

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, i…"

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

"Computer science is a restless infant and its progress depends as much on shifts in point of view as on the orderly d…"

"1: One man's constant is another man's variable."

"3: Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons."

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

"Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks."