“At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.”

“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.”

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

“He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes...”

“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”

“I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.”