Elegance Is Not A Dispensable Luxury But

The Tools We Use Have A Profound And Devious Influence On Our Thinking Habits, And Therefore On Our Thinking Abilities.

Mathematicians Are Like Managers - They Want Improvement Without Change.

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 Lurking Suspicion That Something Could Be Simplified Is The World's Richest Source Of Rewarding Challenges.

Simplicity Is A Great Virtue But It Requires Hard Work To Achieve It And Education To Appreciate It. And To Make Matters Worse: Complexity Sells Better.