The Best Theory Is Inspired By Practice.

By Understanding A Machine-oriented Language, The Programmer Will Tend To Use A Much More Efficient Method; It Is Much Closer To Reality.

Let Us Change Our Traditional Attitude To The Construction Of Programs. Instead Of Imagining That Our Main Task Is To Instruct A Computer What To Do, Let Us Concentrate Rather On Explaining To Human Beings What We Want A Computer To Do.

If You Find That You're Spending Almost All Your Time On Theory, Start Turning Some Attention To Practical Things; It Will Improve Your Theories. If You Find That You're Spending Almost All Your Time On Practice, Start Turning Some Attention To Theoretical Things; It Will Improve Your Practice.

The Most Important Thing In The Kitchen Is The Waste Paper Basket And It Needs To Be Centrally Located.

Programmers Waste Enormous Amounts Of Time Thinking About, Or Worrying About, The Speed Of Noncritical Parts Of Their Programs, And These Attempts At Efficiency Actually Have A Strong Negative Impact When Debugging And Maintenance Are Considered. We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%.