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

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.

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.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

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