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Programming Is The Art Of Telling Another Human Being What One Wants The Computer To Do.

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.

Science Is Knowledge Which We Understand So Well That We Can Teach It To A Computer; And If We Don't Fully Understand Something, It Is An Art To Deal With It.

When You Write A Program, Think Of It Primarily As A Work Of Literature. You're Trying To Write Something That Human Beings Are Going To Read. Don't Think Of It Primarily As Something A Computer Is Going To Follow. The More Effective You Are At Making Your Program Readable, The More Effective It's Going To Be: You'll Understand It Today, You'll Understand It Next Week, And Your Successors Who Are Going To Maintain And Modify It Will Understand It.

A Mathematical Formula Should Never Be "owned" By Anybody! Mathematics Belong To God.