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.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

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

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.