Aim For Brevity While Avoiding Jargon.

Too Few People Recognize That The High Technology So Celebrated Today Is Essentially A Mathematical Technology.

The Competent Programmer Is Fully Aware Of The Strictly Limited Size Of His Own Skull; Therefore He Approaches The Programming Task In Full Humility, And Among Other Things He Avoids Clever Tricks Like The Plague.

… What Society Overwhelmingly Asks For Is Snake Oil. Of Course, The Snake Oil Has The Most Impressive Names — Otherwise You Would Be Selling Nothing — Like “structured Analysis And Design”, “software Engineering”, “maturity Models”, “management Information Systems”, “integrated Project Support Environments” “object Orientation” And “business Process Re-engineering”.

I Would Therefore Like To Posit That Computing's Central Challenge, How Not To Make A Mess Of It, Has Not Yet Been Met.

Teaching To Unsuspecting Youngsters The Effective Use Of Formal Methods Is One Of The Joys Of Life Because It Is So Extremely Rewarding.