Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

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.