Meta-design Is Much More Difficult Than Design;

Programmers Waste Enormous Amounts Of Time Thinking About, Or Worrying About, The Speed Of Noncritical Parts Of Their Programs, And These Attempts At Efficiency Actually Have A Strong Negative Impact When Debugging And Maintenance Are Considered. We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%.

The Designer Of A New Kind Of System Must Participate Fully In The Implementation.

Meta-design Is Much More Difficult Than Design; It's Easier To Draw Something Than To Explain How To Draw It.

How Can You Own Numbers? Numbers Belong To The World.

We Should Continually Be Striving To Transform Every Art Into A Science: In The Process, We Advance The Art.