Programming In Basic Causes Brain Damage.

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

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.

Program Testing Can Be Used To Show The Presence Of Bugs, But Never To Show Their Absence!

Elegance Is Not A Dispensable Luxury But A Factor That Decides Between Success And Failure.

Production Speed Is Severely Slowed Down If One Works With Half-time People Who Have Other Obligations As Well. This Is At Least A Factor Of Four; Probably It Is Worse.