Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking. – Peter Guber
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. – Niklaus Wirth