Beauty Is Our Business.

In The Wake Of The Cultural Revolution And Now Of The Recession I Observe A Mounting Pressure To Co-operate And To Promote "teamwork." For Its Anti-individualistic Streak, Such A Drive Is Of Course Highly Suspect; Some People May Not Be So Sensitive To It, But Having Seen The Hitlerjugend In Action Suffices For The Rest Of Your Life To Be Very Wary Of "team Spirit." Very.

The Problems Of The Real World Are Primarily Those You Are Left With When You Refuse To Apply Their Effective Solutions.

I Mentioned The Non-competitive Spirit Explicitly, Because These Days, Excellence Is A Fashionable Concept. But Excellence Is A Competitive Notion, And That Is Not What We Are Heading For: We Are Heading For Perfection.

The Required Techniques Of Effective Reasoning Are Pretty Formal, But As Long As Programming Is Done By People That Don't Master Them, The Software Crisis Will Remain With Us And Will Be Considered An Incurable Disease. And You Know What Incurable Diseases Do: They Invite The Quacks And Charlatans In, Who In This Case Take The Form Of Software Engineering Gurus.

The Effective Exploitation Of His Powers Of Abstraction Must Be Regarded As One Of The Most Vital Activities Of A Competent Programmer.