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

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about the go to statement. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.