Beauty Is Our Business.

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

Our Intellectual Powers Are Rather Geared To Master Static Relations And That Our Powers To Visualize Processes Evolving In Time Are Relatively Poorly Developed. For That Reason We Should Do (as Wise Programmers Aware Of Our Limitations) Our Utmost To Shorten The Conceptual Gap Between The Static Program And The Dynamic Process, To Make The Correspondence Between The Program (spread Out In Text Space) And The Process (spread Out In Time) As Trivial As Possible.

When We Had No Computers, We Had No Programming Problem Either. When We Had A Few Computers, We Had A Mild Programming Problem. Confronted With Machines A Million Times As Powerful, We Are Faced With A Gigantic Programming Problem.

Experience Does By No Means Automatically Leads To Wisdom And Understanding.

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