Aim For Brevity While Avoiding Jargon.

It Is A Mistake To Think That Programmers Wares Are Programs. Programmers Have To Produce Trustworthy Solutions And Present It In The Form Of Cogent Arguments. Programs Source Code Is Just The Accompanying Material To Which These Arguments Are To Be Applied To.

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

Why Has Elegance Found So Little Following? That Is The Reality Of It. Elegance Has The Disadvantage, If That's What It Is, That Hard Work Is Needed To Achieve It And A Good Education To Appreciate It.

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).

Object-oriented Programming Is An Exceptionally Bad Idea Which Could Only Have Originated In California.