The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.