Programming In Basic Causes Brain Damage.

It Is A Mistake To Think That Programmers Wares Are Programs. Programmers Have To Produce Trustworthy Solutions And Present It In The Form Of Cogent Arguments. Programs Source Code Is Just The Accompanying Material To Which These Arguments Are To Be Applied To.

The Computing Scientist's Main Challenge Is Not To Get Confused By The Complexities Of His Own Making.

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

Please Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Believing That I Am Terribly Dogmatical About The Go To Statement. I Have The Uncomfortable Feeling That Others Are Making A Religion Out Of It, As If The Conceptual Problems Of Programming Could Be Solved By A Single Trick, By A Simple Form Of Coding Discipline!

Programming Is One Of The Most Difficult Branches Of Applied Mathematics; The Poorer Mathematicians Had Better Remain Pure Mathematicians.