Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

Probably I Am Very Naive, But I Also Think I Prefer To Remain So, At Least For The Time Being And Perhaps For The Rest Of My Life.

The Tools We Use Have A Profound And Devious Influence On Our Thinking Habits, And Therefore On Our Thinking Abilities.

A Most Important, But Also Most Elusive, Aspect Of Any Tool Is Its Influence On The Habits Of Those Who Train Themselves In Its Use. If The Tool Is A Programming Language This Influence Is, Whether We Like It Or Not, An Influence On Our Thinking Habits.... A Programming Language Is A Tool That Has Profound Influence On Our Thinking Habits.

Production Speed Is Severely Slowed Down If One Works With Half-time People Who Have Other Obligations As Well. This Is At Least A Factor Of Four; Probably It Is Worse.

John Von Neumann Draws Attention To What Seemed To Him A Contrast. He Remarked That For Simple Mechanisms, It Is Often Easier To Describe How They Work Than What They Do, While For More Complicated Mechanisms, It Is Usually The Other Way Around.