I have never designed a language for its own sake.

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

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

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

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