If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

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.

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.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.