You learn something every day, unless you're careful.

- Tom Van Vleck

I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If the…

- Tom Van Vleck

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

- Tom Van Vleck

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

- Tom Van Vleck

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

- Tom Van Vleck

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped bu…

- Tom Van Vleck