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.

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

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

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.

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

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.