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Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.