Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.