Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

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

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

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 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.