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

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

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.)

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.

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.

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

C++ is an insult to the human brain