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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

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

The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.