Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in read more

FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It read more

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.

What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come read more

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of read more

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.

INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.