Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.