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

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

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

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

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

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.