The Traditional Mathematician Recognizes And Appreciates Mathematical

Thank Goodness We Don't Have Only Serious Problems, But Ridiculous Ones As Well.

When Building Sand Castles On The Beach, We Can Ignore The Waves But Should Watch The Tide.

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

We Shall Do A Much Better Programming Job, Provided That We Approach The Task With A Full Appreciation Of Its Tremendous Difficulty, Provided That We Stick To Modest And Elegant Programming Languages, Provided That We Respect The Intrinsic Limitations Of The Human Mind And Approach The Task As Very Humble Programmers.

Our Intellectual Powers Are Rather Geared To Master Static Relations And That Our Powers To Visualize Processes Evolving In Time Are Relatively Poorly Developed. For That Reason We Should Do (as Wise Programmers Aware Of Our Limitations) Our Utmost To Shorten The Conceptual Gap Between The Static Program And The Dynamic Process, To Make The Correspondence Between The Program (spread Out In Text Space) And The Process (spread Out In Time) As Trivial As Possible.