Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

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.

Pl/1, The Fatal Disease, Belongs More To The Problem Set Than To The Solution Set.

Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As A Criminal Act.

Much Of The Excitement We Get Out Of Our Work Is That We Don't Really Know What We Are Doing.

Testing Shows The Presence, Not The Absence Of Bugs.