Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.