Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

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.

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

... As A Slow-witted Human Being I Have A Very Small Head And I Had Better Learn To Live With It And To Respect My Limitations And Give Them Full Credit, Rather Than To Try To Ignore Them, For The Latter Vain Effort Will Be Punished By Failure.

The Required Techniques Of Effective Reasoning Are Pretty Formal, But As Long As Programming Is Done By People That Don't Master Them, The Software Crisis Will Remain With Us And Will Be Considered An Incurable Disease. And You Know What Incurable Diseases Do: They Invite The Quacks And Charlatans In, Who In This Case Take The Form Of Software Engineering Gurus.

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.