There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec..

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when t….

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentall….

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful..

Instructional programming is really great. To me, it's very enjoyable to watch a process..

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it..

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't..

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you..

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users..

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design..

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code..

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs..