Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

Brainpower Is By Far Our Scarcest Resource.

Are You Quite Sure That All Those Bells And Whistles, All Those Wonderful Facilities Of Your So Called Powerful Programming Languages, Belong To The Solution Set Rather Than The Problem Set?

In This Respect A Program Is Like A Poem: You Cannot Write A Poem Without Writing It. Yet People Talk About Programming As If It Were A Production Process And Measure "programmer Productivity" In Terms Of "number Of Lines Of Code Produced". In So Doing They Book That Number On The Wrong Side Of The Ledger: We Should Always Refer To "the Number Of Lines Of Code Spent".

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

Many Mathematicians Derive Part Of Their Self-esteem By Feeling Themselves The Proud Heirs Of A Long Tradition Of Rational Thinking; I Am Afraid They Idealize Their Cultural Ancestors.