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.

When FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder, full PL/1, with its growth characteristics of a dangerous tumor, could turn out to be a fatal disease.

…the pattern of error begetting error becomes true and deadly.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

We made too many of the wrong mistakes.

Fate... hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles and inexorably distills a slow and deadly venom. One must bend to it and abandon oneself to boundless despair...

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

It's terrible, everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.