There Should Be No Such Thing As

[though Computer Science Is A Fairly New Discipline, It Is Predominantly Based On The Cartesian World View. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra Has Pointed Out] A Scientific Discipline Emerges With The - Usually Rather Slow! - Discovery Of Which Aspects Can Be Meaningfully 'studied' In Isolation For The Sake Of Their Own Consistency.

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

If Debugging Is The Process Of Removing Software Bugs, Then Programming Must Be The Process Of Putting Them In.

It Is Practically Impossible To Teach Good Programming To Students That Have Had A Prior Exposure To Basic: As Potential Programmers They Are Mentally Mutilated Beyond Hope Of Regeneration.

In The Software Business There Are Many Enterprises For Which It Is Not Clear That Science Can Help Them; That Science Should Try Is Not Clear Either.