It Is Not The Task

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

The Effective Exploitation Of His Powers Of Abstraction Must Be Regarded As One Of The Most Vital Activities Of A Competent Programmer.

The Art Of Programming Is The Art Of Organizing Complexity.

A Programming Language Is A Tool That Has Profound Influence On Our Thinking Habits.

The Competent Programmer Is Fully Aware Of The Strictly Limited Size Of His Own Skull; Therefore He Approaches The Programming Task In Full Humility, And Among Other Things He Avoids Clever Tricks Like The Plague.