Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Sanctions are a bad idea.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.