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The Purpose Of Abstraction Is Not To Be Vague, But To Create A New Semantic Level In Which One Can Be Absolutely Precise.

The Ability Of Discerning High Quality Unavoidably Implies The Ability Of Identifying Shortcomings.

It Is A Mistake To Think That Programmers Wares Are Programs. Programmers Have To Produce Trustworthy Solutions And Present It In The Form Of Cogent Arguments. Programs Source Code Is Just The Accompanying Material To Which These Arguments Are To Be Applied To.

Programming In Basic Causes Brain Damage.

… What Society Overwhelmingly Asks For Is Snake Oil. Of Course, The Snake Oil Has The Most Impressive Names — Otherwise You Would Be Selling Nothing — Like “structured Analysis And Design”, “software Engineering”, “maturity Models”, “management Information Systems”, “integrated Project Support Environments” “object Orientation” And “business Process Re-engineering”.