Progress Is Possible Only If We Train

Testing Shows The Presence, Not The Absence Of Bugs.

The Art Of Programming Is The Art Of Organizing Complexity.

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.

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

In The Wake Of The Cultural Revolution And Now Of The Recession I Observe A Mounting Pressure To Co-operate And To Promote "teamwork." For Its Anti-individualistic Streak, Such A Drive Is Of Course Highly Suspect; Some People May Not Be So Sensitive To It, But Having Seen The Hitlerjugend In Action Suffices For The Rest Of Your Life To Be Very Wary Of "team Spirit." Very.