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

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.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

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

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

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.