Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

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.