The Purpose Of Abstraction Is Not To

The Art Of Programming Is The Art Of Organizing Complexity.

The Lurking Suspicion That Something Could Be Simplified Is The World's Richest Source Of Rewarding Challenges.

Several People Have Told Me That My Inability To Suffer Fools Gladly Is One Of My Main Weaknesses.

If We Wish To Count Lines Of Code, We Should Not Regard Them As "lines Produced" But As "lines Spent."

When I Came Back From Munich, It Was September, And I Was Professor Of Mathematics At The Eindhoven University Of Technology. Later I Learned That I Had Been The Department's Third Choice, After Two Numerical Analysts Had Turned The Invitation Down; The Decision To Invite Me Had Not Been An Easy One, On The One Hand Because I Had Not Really Studied Mathematics, And On The Other Hand Because Of My Sandals, My Beard And My "arrogance" (whatever That May Be).