Brainpower Is By Far Our Scarcest Resource.

The Purpose Of Abstraction Is Not To Be Vague, But To Create A New Semantic Level In Which One Can Be Absolutely Precise.

How Do We Convince People That In Programming Simplicity And Clarity - In Short: What Mathematicians Call Elegance - Are Not A Dispensable Luxury, But A Crucial Matter That Decides Between Success And Failure?

Brainpower Is By Far Our Scarcest Resource.

The Use Of Cobol Cripples The Mind; Its Teaching Should, Therefore, Be Regarded As A Criminal Offense.

In Their Capacity As A Tool, Computers Will Be But A Ripple On The Surface Of Our Culture. In Their Capacity As Intellectual Challenge, They Are Without Precedent In The Cultural History Of Mankind.