The Art Of Programming Is The Art

Progress Is Possible Only If We Train Ourselves To Think About Programs Without Thinking Of Them As Pieces Of Executable Code.

I Would Therefore Like To Posit That Computing's Central Challenge, How Not To Make A Mess Of It, Has Not Yet Been Met.

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

Some Consider The Puzzles That Are Created By Their Omissions As Spicy Challenges, Without Which Their Texts Would Be Boring; Others Shun Clarity Lest Their Work Is Considered Trivial.

A Convincing Demonstration Of Correctness Being Impossible As Long As The Mechanism Is Regarded As A Black Box, Our Only Hope Lies In Not Regarding The Mechanism As A Black Box.