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

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

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.

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 is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

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.)