My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
Most pedophiles are straight not gay.
Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.
If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
People who have no values have no value.