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.)

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

Programming is usually taught by examples.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

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

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.