If Debugging Is The Process

Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

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".

Several People Have Told Me That My Inability To Suffer Fools Gladly Is One Of My Main Weaknesses.

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

If There Is One 'scientific' Discovery I Am Proud Of, It Is The Discovery Of The Habit Of Writing Without Publication In Mind.