The Best Theory Is Inspired By Practice.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.

The Most Important Thing In The Kitchen Is The Waste Paper Basket And It Needs To Be Centrally Located.

Science Is Knowledge Which We Understand So Well That We Can Teach It To A Computer; And If We Don't Fully Understand Something, It Is An Art To Deal With It.

An Algorithm Must Be Seen To Be Believed.

When You Write A Program, Think Of It Primarily As A Work Of Literature. You're Trying To Write Something That Human Beings Are Going To Read. Don't Think Of It Primarily As Something A Computer Is Going To Follow. The More Effective You Are At Making Your Program Readable, The More Effective It's Going To Be: You'll Understand It Today, You'll Understand It Next Week, And Your Successors Who Are Going To Maintain And Modify It Will Understand It.