"If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with." -- EWD

"The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important." -- K. Iverson

"Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them." -- A. N. Whitehead

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.