The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

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.

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.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

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

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.