I Now Have Had My Foggy Crystal

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

The Purpose Of Abstraction Is Not To Be Vague, But To Create A New Semantic Level In Which One Can Be Absolutely Precise.

Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the Most Intelligent Way To Misuse A Computer." I Think That Description Is A Great Compliment Because It Transmits The Full Flavour Of Liberation: It Has Assisted A Number Of Our Most Gifted Fellow Humans In Thinking Previously Impossible Thoughts.

...simplifications Have Had A Much Greater Long-range Scientific Impact Than Individual Feats Of Ingenuity. The Opportunity For Simplification Is Very Encouraging, Because In All Examples That Come To Mind The Simple And Elegant Systems Tend To Be Easier And Faster To Design And Get Right, More Efficient In Execution, And Much More Reliable Than The More Contrived Contraptions That Have To Be Debugged Into Some Degree Of Acceptability....simplicity And Elegance Are Unpopular Because They Require Hard Work And Discipline To Achieve And Education To Be Appreciated.

Thank Goodness We Don't Have Only Serious Problems, But Ridiculous Ones As Well.