Thank Goodness We Don't Have Only Serious

Beware Of "the Real World". A Speaker's Apeal To It Is Always An Invitation Not To Challenge His Tacit Assumptions.

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

Industry Suffers From The Managerial Dogma That For The Sake Of Stability And Continuity, The Company Should Be Independent Of The Competence Of Individual Employees.

So-called "natural Language" Is Wonderful For The Purposes It Was Created For, Such As To Be Rude In, To Tell Jokes In, To Cheat Or To Make Love In (and Theorists Of Literary Criticism Can Even Be Content-free In It), But It Is Hopelessly Inadequate When We Have To Deal Unambiguously With Situations Of Great Intricacy, Situations Which Unavoidably Arise In Such Activities As Legislation, Arbitration, Mathematics Or Programming.

Too Few People Recognize That The High Technology So Celebrated Today Is Essentially A Mathematical Technology.