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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.