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

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

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

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

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.

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