It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

If Soviet society is to move forward with confidence toward our great goals, each new generation must rise to an ever-higher level of learning and general cult…

'Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can; I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.'

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.