In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated

[though Computer Science Is A Fairly New Discipline, It Is Predominantly Based On The Cartesian World View. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra Has Pointed Out] A Scientific Discipline Emerges With The - Usually Rather Slow! - Discovery Of Which Aspects Can Be Meaningfully 'studied' In Isolation For The Sake Of Their Own Consistency.

Elegance Is Not A Dispensable Luxury But A Factor That Decides Between Success And Failure.

Beware Of "the Real World". A Speaker's Apeal To It Is Always An Invitation Not To Challenge His Tacit Assumptions.

I Don't Need To Waste My Time With A Computer Just Because I Am A Computer Scientist.

Perfecting Oneself Is As Much Unlearning As It Is Learning.